The champions are back!

After a week from hell Haifa is back in buisness. Last week we lost twice, 4-1 against Jerusalem (1/12) on sunday and 4-0 against Espanyol in the UEFA cup. During the weekend everyone burried us and called us "a dead team". Last night at our home stadium Haifa finally showed their real game, the game that made us champions for 5 years. WE WON! We acctually won a match! Hapoel Tel-Aviv (2/12) came to Haifa needing a win to keep their 2nd place, 90 minutes later they went home after losing 4-0 with 2 amazing goals by Rafaelov and Dircao.
After a long a hard season in the domestic arena Haifa fans can finally smile

To see a clip from the game click the V5 Icon on the top right of the picture:
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Finally I'm really happy for you

Nice , what is your position now ? us we've lost in Auxerre.

tnx guys. we are still 7th but we are now 4 points away from the InterToto ticket

How many matches to be played before the end of the season?

25 played 8 more to go

Don't listen to what anyone says about the Intertoto being meaningless. It's a good handy competition before the start of the season and you should cherish the trophy if you win it

On a season that is as crapy as this one InterToto is the only way Haifa has a chance to get to the UEFA cup' it's better than nothing

But there is a change in the intertoto cup now ? there isn't finals now. There are 3 rounds and it's finished. There are not winners like before.

And we won again last night! a 1-0 away win at Maccabi Tal-Aviv's (2/12) stadium.
We advanced to the 6th place, 4 points away from the intertoto ticket and 8 from the Uefa cup ticket.
Kinda finished the championship issue now. after beating the 2 teams from Tel-Aviv we now left Beitar with a 7 pts lead with only 7 matches to go

you come back, if only we could do like you.